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New
York, April 14, 2014--Local and international journalists covering the volatile situation
in eastern Ukraine have been harassed, attacked, detained, and had their
equipment seized, according to news reports and regional press freedom groups.

Dear President Putin: The Committee to Protect Journalists, an international press freedom advocacy group, is gravely concerned about recent steps to restrict Russia's independent media. The measures taken over the past three months threaten to eradicate Russian news outlets' freedom to freely report and analyze news events.

New York, September 27, 2013--Russian
authorities should immediately release a freelance photographer who was
detained nine days ago while covering a Greenpeace demonstration, the Committee
to Protect Journalists said today. A court on Thursday ordered Denis Sinyakov to
be held for two months pending an investigation into accusations of piracy,
news reports said.

In
the last year, CPJ has documented
a disturbing trend of attacks against the press in Tajikistan: the frequent
blocking orders that the State Communications Agency has issued to local
Internet service providers. Delivered in most instances via text message, the
orders urge the ISPs to block nationwide access to local and international news
websites that criticize President Emomali Rahmon and his authoritarian
policies, and publicize issues like widespread government corruption and rising
unemployment.

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New
York, March 30, 2012--Authorities must conduct a thorough and effective
investigation into the attack on the publisher of a Latvian news website that
had run a number of sensitive stories, the Committee to Protect Journalists
said today.

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New York, December 20, 2011--Authorities in the Mangistau
region of western Kazakhstan have attacked and detained independent journalists
and blocked access to news outlets to suppress coverage of unrest there, news reports said. The Committee Protect today called on Kazakh authorities
to allow the media unfettered access.